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Last year, when asked if he would like the Bengals to be the featured team for HBO’s
Hard Knocks: Training Camp series, Cincinnati coach
Marvin Lewis said that they had done their time for the NFL. Evidently, a lot has
changed in 12 months.

Confirmed by
TheCincinnati Enquirer through league sources and originally reported by
Paul Domowitch of the
Philadelphia Daily News on Twitter, the Bengals will make their second appearance in five
seasons on the HBO series that is produced by NFL Films. An announcement from HBO could be
forthcoming this week.

Even though the series is popular with fans because of its 24/7 access to players, coaches and
the front office, most teams are not as enamored for the same reason.

Lewis has considered both of his experiences with
Hard Knocks to be positive. He was the defensive coordinator in Baltimore the first year
of the series in 2001 and the Bengals’ coach in 2009. However, when asked the past couple of
seasons on whether he would want his team to do it again, he has been leery.

Only 13 Bengals players were on the roster in 2009. Offensive coordinator
Jay Gruden and three other assistants also will have their first experience of
having cameras record their every move.

The first three weeks of the series also were mainly filmed at Georgetown College, where the
team held training camp from 1997 to 2011. This will be the second year that camp has been at Paul
Brown Stadium.